Site Update - 5-June-2006

Keith Gable — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 22:02:00 -0500

No, I’m not dead. I’m officially graduated (well, er, I have been for like, a month now), so there’s no pesky school stuff in my way at least for now. Anyways, I’ve picked up the source again, and I am ashamed of myself. On a code-level, this thing is an abomination. Sure, it’s classful, but there are still issues with the VB code being unclean in nature. I mean, I look at it, remember late night coding sessions and remember the awful hack that I put in to make things work, since VB is inherently an awful language. I look at some frameworks I attempted to put in before I put it down, and I now remember why I put it down – Visual Basic sucks. I want to put in frameworks and APIs so I can easily add features in the future. But, it’s nearly impossible. I mean, it’s possible, but doing it in an object-oriented and clean way is difficult. So… I think that I will look into writing it in C++ or something. I’m itching to code on something, and my employer knows this – but unfortunately, we’re not starting his big project yet. So… I think… that uh… I might begin work on ignitionServer NG (Next Generation) sometime soon. The site’s also being worked on. The main issue is STILL forums, though I admit I haven’t really done work with it. We’ll see. I’m going to make a promise to myself that I will commit SOMETHING to the SVN repo this week.

Also, I’m going to save all you programmers a big long search through the greater depths of hell..er..the MSDN Library. You can find the full VB language reference here. It’s impossible to search for because the page is nearly blank and is titled “Reference”. I spent HOURS looking for this page, only to find it in my bookmarks. So, I’m doing the world a favor.

The Ignition Project: Site Update - 5-June-2006

Site Update - 5-June-2006